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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2018-08-13 17:20:46 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2018-08-13 17:20:46 +0000
commit3c1622eb77d912c8f6239ea0a36b210801e1f0f8 (patch)
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parentf3cd0904a452f6a831cd15564077d0f883031659 (diff)
downloadglibc-3c1622eb77d912c8f6239ea0a36b210801e1f0f8.tar.gz
Update install.texi documentation of uses of Perl and Python.
The install.texi documentation of uses of Perl and Python is substantially out of date. The description of Perl is "to test the installation" (which I interpret as referring to test-installation.pl), but it's used for more tests than that, and to build the manual, and to regenerate one file in the source tree. The description of Python is only for pretty-printer tests, but it's used for other tests / benchmarks as well (and for other internal uses such as updating Unicode data, for which we already require Python 3, but I think install.texi only needs to describe uses from the main glibc Makefiles). This patch updates the descriptions of what those tools are used for. The Python information (and information about other tools for testing pretty printers) was awkwardly in the middle of the general description of building and testing glibc, rather than with the rest of information about tools used in glibc build and test; this patch moves the information about those tools into the main list. Tested with regeneration of INSTALL as well as "make info" and "make pdf". * manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Do not list tools used for testing pretty printers here. (Tools for Compilation): List Python, PExpect and GDB here. Update descriptions of uses of Perl and Python. * INSTALL: Regenerate.
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@@ -296,38 +296,6 @@ You can specify 'stop-on-test-failure=y' when running 'make check' to
make the test run stop and exit with an error status immediately when a
failure occurs.
- The GNU C Library pretty printers come with their own set of scripts
-for testing, which run together with the rest of the testsuite through
-'make check'. These scripts require the following tools to run
-successfully:
-
- * Python 2.7/3.4 or later
-
- Python is required for running the printers' test scripts. As of
- release time, Python 3.6 is the newest verified to work to test the
- pretty printers.
-
- * PExpect 4.0
-
- The printer tests drive GDB through test programs and compare its
- output to the printers'. PExpect is used to capture the output of
- GDB, and should be compatible with the Python version in your
- system. As of release time PExpect 4.3 is the newest verified to
- work to test the pretty printers.
-
- * GDB 7.8 or later with support for Python 2.7/3.4 or later
-
- GDB itself needs to be configured with Python support in order to
- use the pretty printers. Notice that your system having Python
- available doesn't imply that GDB supports it, nor that your
- system's Python and GDB's have the same version. As of release
- time GNU 'debugger' 8.0.1 is the newest verified to work to test
- the pretty printers.
-
-If these tools are absent, the printer tests will report themselves as
-'UNSUPPORTED'. Notice that some of the printer tests require the GNU C
-Library to be compiled with debugging symbols.
-
To format the 'GNU C Library Reference Manual' for printing, type
'make dvi'. You need a working TeX installation to do this. The
distribution builds the on-line formatted version of the manual, as Info
@@ -532,10 +500,11 @@ build the GNU C Library:
* Perl 5
- Perl is not required, but it is used if present to test the
- installation. We may decide to use it elsewhere in the future. As
- of release time 'perl' version 5.28.0 is the newest verified to
- work to build the GNU C Library.
+ Perl is not required, but if present it is used in some tests and
+ the 'mtrace' program, to build the GNU C Library manual, as well as
+ to regenerate 'locale/C-translit.h' if its source files are
+ modified. As of release time 'perl' version 5.28.0 is the newest
+ verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
* GNU 'sed' 3.02 or newer
@@ -543,6 +512,33 @@ build the GNU C Library:
work with any version of 'sed'. As of release time, 'sed' version
4.5 is the newest verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
+ * Python 2.7/3.4 or later
+
+ Python is required to run some tests. As of release time, Python
+ 3.6 is the newest verified to work for testing the GNU C Library.
+
+ * PExpect 4.0
+
+ The pretty printer tests drive GDB through test programs and
+ compare its output to the printers'. PExpect is used to capture
+ the output of GDB, and should be compatible with the Python version
+ in your system. As of release time PExpect 4.3 is the newest
+ verified to work to test the pretty printers.
+
+ * GDB 7.8 or later with support for Python 2.7/3.4 or later
+
+ GDB itself needs to be configured with Python support in order to
+ use the pretty printers. Notice that your system having Python
+ available doesn't imply that GDB supports it, nor that your
+ system's Python and GDB's have the same version. As of release
+ time GNU 'debugger' 8.0.1 is the newest verified to work to test
+ the pretty printers.
+
+ Unless Python, PExpect and GDB with Python support are present, the
+ printer tests will report themselves as 'UNSUPPORTED'. Notice that
+ some of the printer tests require the GNU C Library to be compiled
+ with debugging symbols.
+
If you change any of the 'configure.ac' files you will also need
* GNU 'autoconf' 2.69 (exactly)